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The Engineering Challenges of Renewable Energy

by CrashCourse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k5gyYAAEEU

The YouTube video made possible by CrashCourse tackles about the

renewable energy sources and why we need them. It explores hydropower,
wind, geothermal, and solar power, as well as some of the challenges, and
how engineers are working to make their use more widespread.
Major renewable energy sources come from processes that are
naturally occurring on Earth. Renewable energy tends to release fewer
harmful byproducts, like carbon dioxide, into the environment.
Hydropower has produced as much as 16% of the world’s energy
needs but causes devastating consequences for the local ecology due to
changing the environment suddenly and preventing the natural flow of water
downstream.
The other renewable energy that works similarly to hydropower is wind
power. One of the biggest engineering challenges in wind power is designing
the turbine blades to efficiently extract energy from the air. Wind power has
only generated 4% of the world’s total power supply in recent years.
Location plays an important role in geothermal power. Like
conventional power plants, geothermal power relies on steam as the working
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fluid on the turbines connected to the generator. Setting up a geothermal

power plant can be difficult because it can be expensive to drill and explore
for underground conditions that are exactly right.
The solar energy is so abundant and easily accessible but the
challenge is finding efficient ways to harness the energy. Solar panels are the
most popular and uses two semiconducting pieces to set up an electrical field
that biases the movement of free electrons inside the material in a particular
direction. On average, industrial PV cells are about 17% efficient.
There are lots of challenges ahead in bringing renewable energy
sources to the forefront of electrical power production.
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Heat Engines, Refrigerators, & Cycles

by CrashCourse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZOXW5aaCZg

In engineering, a system has undergone a cycle if it returns to its initial

state at the end of the process. Cycles are important because, it allows us to
run through the same process again and again, instead of limiting us to do
something only once.
Heat engines are machines or systems that convert heat into other
forms of energy. Heat engine is a cycle and cycles achieve some goal, like
heating or cooling a room, by circulating what’s known as a working fluid
through a series of operations.
Just like the heat engine, we can break the cycle of refrigeration into
four stages with a working fluid circulating through all the stages. In a
refrigerator, the working fluid is a hydrochlorofluorocarbon chemical that is
usually referred to as freon. The food inside refrigerators stays cold because
heat is being taken out from the inside of the refrigerator.
The zeer pot is a simple refrigerator made from one earthen pot set
inside another, with a layer of wet sand in between them. It was made famous
by Nigerian inventor Mohammed Bah Abba in the 1990’s.
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To improve the process of a refrigeration cycle, we can use renewable

energy to fuel the system and produce work.

Engineering Ethics
by CrashCourse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KZx81crb48

With so many different branches of engineering, it’s good to have some

common ground - a general set of guidelines or ideas for how the engineers
of the world should go about solving problems.
Engineering ethics is the study of values, issues, and decisions that are
involved with the work of engineers.
Code of Ethics has eight distinct principles - Hold Safety Paramount,
Service with Competence, Issues True Statements, Act as a Faithful Agent,
Reputation by Merit, Uphold Professional Honor, Continue Professional
Development, and Treat all Persons Fairly.
Utilitarianism is the belief that actions are right if they are useful or
beneficial to the majority of people. Right Ethics means you should do your
best to respect the right of others. Duty ethics is all about respecting another
person’s autonomy.
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Applying engineering ethics is all about trying to balance these ethical

theories with whatever situation you’re put in. Everyone needs to share and
contribute to the advancement of professional knowledge.